Sci-fi horror from schlockmeisters American International Pictures, with John Saxon, Basil Rathbone, Dennis Hopper, Judi Meredith, & Florence Marly.

A spaceship is sent to Mars after an alien distress signal is picked up, but the rescuers begin to die drained of blood

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https://youtu.be/szRbXhK9i_8

Get the film, press PLAY at 7pm GMT & join in the fun posting with the hashtag #ReMonsterdon

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PREPARE FOR GLOBAL SWARMING!

A slacker awakes to find himself wrapped in a webbing. After realizing that the world has been taken over by giant insects, he wakes a ragtag group of strangers and together they fight for survival.

SPOILER-HEAVY TRAILER

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... stars Catherine Mary Stewart, Robert Beltran, and Kelli Maroney as survivors of a comet that has turned most people into either dust or zombies. Night of the Comet grossed $14.4 million in the US on a $700,000 budget.

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On the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, 79% of 33 critics' reviews are positive, with an average rating of 6.5/10. The website's consensus reads: "Valley Girl culture satire Night of the Comet gets lots of mileage out of its slapstick sci-fi zombie approach."[4] On Metacritic, it has a score of 59 out of 100 based on 10 critic reviews, which indicates "mixed or average" reviews.[5]

Variety wrote that Eberhardt "creates a visually arresting B-picture in the neon-primary colors of the cult hit Liquid Sky", as well as pointing out similarities with Five, The Day of the Triffids, The Omega Man, Dawn of the Dead and Last Woman on Earth. They described the film as "a successful pastiche of numerous science fiction films, executed with an entertaining, tongue-in-cheek flair that compensates for its absence in originality."[6] Vincent Canby of The New York Times called it "a good-natured, end-of-the-world B-movie" whose "humor augments rather than upstages the mechanics of the melodrama".

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Night of the Comet developed a cult following in the years after its release.[15] Keith Phipps of The Dissolve wrote that the film's cult following comes from how matter-of-factly it treats its weird premise.[16] The film was voted number 10 in Bloody Disgusting's Top 10 Doomsday Horror Films in 2009.[17] Maroney's character was an influence on Joss Whedon when he created Buffy Summers of Buffy the Vampire Slayer.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Night_of_the_Comet

Night of the Comet (1984) is the movie for this Sunday's "monsterdon" watch party over on Mastodon, our fediverse sibling!

• Just start watching that movie this Sunday, Sept 13 at 9pm ET / 8pm CT / 6pm PT which is 1am Monday UTC
• and follow #monsterdon over on mastodon for live text commentary. For example, you can follow that hashtag here: https://mastodon.social/tags/monsterdon
• I usually open two web browser windows side-by-side on a computer. But you could follow the mastodon commentary on a phone app while watching the movie on TV or something.

How to watch the movie:

• for info on how to block ads, see: https://ohai.social/@klu9/115245207831850566
• tubi: https://tubitv.com/movies/432267/night-of-the-comet
• archive: https://archive.org/details/night.-of.-the.-comet.-1984
• it's usually streamed on https://miru.miyaku.media/ at that time
• if you want to pay and/or watch ads, look here: https://www.justwatch.com/us/movie/night-of-the-comet
• for trigger warnings see: https://www.doesthedogdie.com/media/14061

After Night of the Comet in the #Monsterdon watch party (see here), the film in the #MonsterdonDoubleFeature will be Prisoners of the Lost Universe (1983), with Richard Hatch (original Battlestar Galactica), John Saxon (b movies ad nauseam) & Kay Lenz (House 1985).

Three people are transported into a parallel universe. There they find that they must use modern technology, but medieval weapons, in order to save the citizenry from a murderous warlord.

The stream will also show an episode of Ultraman before the Monsterdon film.

More info on the watch party, film, links to stream or download etc

• NeoDB - MonsterdonDoubleFeature

IT'S SHOCKING! IT'S BEYOND YOUR IMAGINATION!

A family gets lost on the road and stumbles upon a hidden, underground, devil-worshiping cult led by the fearsome Master and his servant Torgo.

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A group of women hatch a detailed plan to take down the top global financial systems. They will let nothing and no one get in their way.

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Planet Patrol agent Mogyar must overcome his stereotypical Italian accent and strange appearance in order to ally with a team of human planetary guardians to stop the plans of evil galactic overlord Lord Doom when he sends a gargantuan monster called Kraa to destroy the Earth.

This Sunday 6th September, the 2nd film on #MonsterdonDoubleFeature (extension of the #Monsterdon watch party on Mastodon) is Kraa! The Sea Monster (1998), which is available on Tubi (360p) & Youtube (1080p)

• https://youtu.be/Kx5Q-JyPt2w (1:09:25, 1080p, ENG audio, autogen ENG subs)
• https://youtu.be/ZB6gpFTYt2k (1:09:25, 1080p, ENG audio, autogen ENG subs)
• https://tubitv.com/movies/478162 (1:09:25, 360p, ENG audio, no subs)

More info

• More on info on MonsterdonDoubleFeature & the film

A loose adaptation of the novella of the same name by H. P. Lovecraft, the film concerns a young female graduate student who is targeted by a man attempting to use her in an occult ritual taken from the Necronomicon. ... Critical response was divided, with some critics praising the film's technical elements and adaptation of the source material, while others felt the performances were ineffective, and the film generally mediocre. Despite this, some contemporary film scholars, such as Alain Silver, have championed it as one of the best film adaptations of a Lovecraft literary work. Film historian Rob Craig similarly deemed it "one of the most overall successful adaptations of a Lovecraft source work ever committed to film."[1] Aesthetically, the film has been noted for its psychedelic posterized imagery.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Dunwich_Horror_(film)

Cthulhu Fhtaghn, y'all! The Dunwich Horror (1970) is the movie for this Sunday's "monsterdon" watch party over on Mastodon, our fediverse sibling!

• Just start watching that movie this Sunday, Sept. 6 at 9pm ET / 8pm CT / 6pm PT which is 1am Monday UTC
• and follow #monsterdon over on mastodon for live text commentary. For example, you can follow that hashtag here: https://mastodon.social/tags/monsterdon
• I usually open two web browser windows side-by-side on a computer. But you could follow the mastodon commentary on a phone app while watching the movie on TV or something.

How to watch the movie:

WARNING: we are watching the 1970 version, but there's a 2009 re-make, so make sure you get the right Horror!

• for info on how to block ads, see: https://ohai.social/@klu9/115245207831850566
• tubi: https://tubitv.com/movies/100011709/the-dunwich-horror
• archive: https://archive.org/details/the-dunwich-horror-1970_202605
• archive: https://archive.org/details/the-dunwich-horror-1970
• it's usually streamed on https://miru.miyaku.media/ at that time
• if you want to pay and/or watch ads, look here: https://www.justwatch.com/us/movie/the-dunwich-horror
• for trigger warnings see: https://www.doesthedogdie.com/media/164364

New documentary on Charles motherf*%king Band! of Full Moon Entertainment, Empire Pictures etc. The director & producer who practically invented the straight-to-video business model and gave us such delights as Trancers , Laserblast , and Zarkorr! The Invader . And a whole bunch of Jeffrey Combs films like Re-Animator.

• NeoDB
• JustWatch(not yet available for streaming but hopefully soon)

That search came up with Charles Band’s Full Moon Freakshow, a series from 2022. 1st episode: John Carpenter (who also appears in the Full Moon Rising doc).

• Full Moon Features
• JustWatch
• NeoDB

THRILL-CRAZED SPACE KIDS BLASTING THE FLESH OFF HUMANS!

A young alien falls for a pretty teenage Earth girl and they team up to try to stop the plans of his invading cohorts, who intend to use Earth as a food-breeding ground for giant lobsters from their planet.

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The Guyver follows a young man, Sean Barker (Jack Armstrong), who discovers an alien artifact called "The Unit" which transforms him into an alien-hybrid super soldier called "The Guyver". Barker learns that a major corporation known as Chronos is after the Guyver unit, and soon discovers that the company seeks to genetically engineer monsters. The film was met with a mixed reaction from critics and fans.

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Glenn Kenny of Entertainment Weekly said the film features “surprisingly convincing costumes and effects, inspired casting, and energetic direction, [but] what sinks it is its unfortunate adherence to the time-honored direct-to-video clichés: an unearned paycheck for a onetime A-picture star, and a tendency to fall back on lame humor whenever the going gets slow.”[4]

David Johnson of DVD Verdict criticized the film's "ham-fisted over-acting", "ludicrous plot contrivances", and "nauseatingly hokey soundtrack."[5] Johnson called the film "a big, dumb joke" and said: "Despite some good creature effects, the movie crashed and burned and crashed again, weighted down by preposterous acting [and] corny music."[5]

Nathan Shumate of Cold Fusion Video Reviews criticized the film, in particular “the annoying demeanor and lack of personality” of lead actor Jack Armstrong, adding: "If there ever was a movie made for fan appreciation only, this is it, [...] but not everything can be blamed on audience unfamiliarity; there are plenty of elements in this movie that don’t work even by fanboy standards.”

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Guyver

But it's also got Mark "Luke Skywalker" Hamill, so... The Guyver (1991) is the movie for this Sunday's "monsterdon" watch party over on Mastodon, our fediverse sibling!

• Just start watching that movie this Sunday, Aug 30 at 9pm ET / 8pm CT / 6pm PT which is 1am Monday UTC
• and follow #monsterdon over on mastodon for live text commentary. For example, you can follow that hashtag here: https://mastodon.social/tags/monsterdon
• I usually open two web browser windows side-by-side on a computer. But you could follow the mastodon commentary on a phone app while watching the movie on TV or something.

How to watch the movie:

• for info on how to block ads, see: https://ohai.social/@klu9/115245207831850566
• tubi: https://tubitv.com/movies/100029582/the-guyver
• fawesome: https://fawesome.tv/movies/10752776/the-guyver
• archive: https://archive.org/details/the.-guyver.-1991.1080p.-blu-ray.x-265
• it's usually streamed on https://miru.miyaku.media/ at that time
• if you want to pay and/or watch ads, look here: https://www.justwatch.com/us/movie/the-guyver
• for trigger warnings see: https://www.doesthedogdie.com/media/238999

After Fiera and her punk cohorts break their leader Tarzan out of prison, no one is safe! The newly reunited gang are quick to resume their favorite pastimes: robbing banks, brokering drug deals, and securing weapons, all while leaving a trail of mutilated corpses in their wake. Two federal agents are eventually tasked with neutralizing the gang.

NSFW TRAILER

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The film follows the discovery of a mysterious, sweet, and addictive substance becoming a popular dessert in the United States but soon begins attacking people and turning them into zombies.

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Colin Greenland reviewed The Stuff for White Dwarf #77 and stated that "A brilliant performance by Cohen stalwart Michael Moriarty as an industrial spy after the truth holds the straggling plot together."[29] It received positive reviews from critics: on review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, the film has a 68% rating, based on 19 reviews.[30] According to Bruce Kawin and Tony Williams, The Stuff satirizes American consumerism, mass media, and health foods.[31][32] Roger Crow of On: Yorkshire Magazine called the film a "schlock horror satire", praised Moriarty's performance, and said the film paid homage to "The Blob and Invasion of the Body Snatchers [and] went on to inspire cosmetics horror satire The Substance."[33] He said the quality of the special effects and picture quality ranged from good to bad. He praised the performance, direction, script, and rewatchability of the film.[33] Ian Berriman of SFX praised Moriarty for his ability to improvise in the film, calling him "delightfully idiosyncratic".[8] Berriman also wrote that although many special effects did not look believable, they contributed to the appeal of the film.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Stuff

The Stuff (1985) is the movie for this Sunday's "monsterdon" watch party over on Mastodon, our fediverse sibling!

• Just start watching that movie this Sunday, Aug 23 at 9pm ET / 8pm CT / 6pm PT which is 1am Monday UTC
• and follow #monsterdon over on mastodon for live text commentary. For example, you can follow that hashtag here: https://mastodon.social/tags/monsterdon
• I usually open two web browser windows side-by-side on a computer. But you could follow the mastodon commentary on a phone app while watching the movie on TV or something.

How to watch the movie:

• for info on how to block ads, see: https://ohai.social/@klu9/115245207831850566
• tubi: https://tubitv.com/movies/100049107/the-stuff
• youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sg--NNwFjUo
• peertube: https://tube.me.jon-e.net/w/956f549f-94c8-46d7-beed-6624da52229d
• archive: https://archive.org/details/the-stuff-1985-michael-moriarty-full-movie-1080p-hd
• it's usually streamed on https://miru.miyaku.media/ at that time
• if you want to pay and/or watch ads, look here: https://www.justwatch.com/us/movie/the-stuff
• for trigger warnings see: https://www.doesthedogdie.com/media/15361

Don't get confused! It's NOT:

• The Stuff (2018)
• Stuff (2019)
• Stuff (2015)
• Stuff (1993)
• Stuffed (2025)
• Stuffy (2024)
• Stuffed (2024)
• Stuffed (2022)
• Stuffed (2021)
• Stuffed (2020)
• Stuffed (2019)
• Stuffed (2018)
• Stuffed (2014)
• Stuffer (2010)
• Stuffed! (1991)

So make sure you get the right Stuff. But NOT The Right Stuff (1983)!

In the year 2312, a group of aliens auction off insignificant planets and the winner of the auction for Sol 3 (Earth) is the evil despot Kress. He soon flies to "Sol 3" in what is the first contact with beings from another planet for those living there...

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Star Odyssey is one of five low-budget Italian space opera films produced by director Alfonso Brescia (under the pseudonym Al Bradley) in the wake of the success of Star Wars. It is the fourth installment in the cycle, following Cosmos: War of the Planets (1977), Battle of the Stars (1978), and War of the Robots (1978).

The production heavily re-used miniature effects, models, and costumes from Brescia's previous feature, War of the Robots. To save costs, the film utilized low-budget props; a review in Popular Mechanics noted that the "light-sabers" featured in the film were merely cardboard swords coated with fluorescent paint. ...

The film received highly negative reviews for its technical quality. Bill Gordon of Worst Movies Ever Made found the special effects poor and characterized the narrative structure as confusing. Similarly, Popular Mechanics dismissed the film as a "dreadful trashpile", while TechRadar described it as alternating between "insufferable or hilariously bad" depending on the viewer's mindset.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Odyssey

Attenzione! Star Odyssey (1979) is the movie for this Sunday's "monsterdon" watch party over on Mastodon, our fediverse sibling!

• Just start watching that movie this Sunday, Aug 16 at 9pm ET / 8pm CT / 6pm PT which is 1am Monday UTC
• and follow #monsterdon over on mastodon for live text commentary. For example, you can follow that hashtag here: https://mastodon.social/tags/monsterdon
• I usually open two web browser windows side-by-side on a computer. But you could follow the mastodon commentary on a phone app while watching the movie on TV or something.

How to watch the movie:

• for info on how to block ads, see: https://ohai.social/@klu9/115245207831850566
• tubi: https://tubitv.com/movies/565402/star-odyssey
• fawesome: https://fawesome.tv/movies/10649777/star-odyssey
• youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gCowIGE8JmM
• archive: https://archive.org/details/StarOdyssey1979
• it's usually streamed on https://miru.miyaku.media/ at that time
• if you want to pay and/or watch ads, look here: https://www.justwatch.com/us/movie/star-odyssey
• doesthedogdie does not have any info on trigger warnings for this film but here's the link for it anyway: https://www.doesthedogdie.com/media/198751

Yang Ye, head of the Yang family, and his seven sons are sent out by the emperor to fight the Mongols. However, this turns out to be a trap set by Pan Mei, a former friend seeking revenge. During the battle, the father and five sons perish, while the sixth brother goes mad, and the fifth brother seeks refuge in a Shaolin temple.

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I've gotten a lot of really good recommendations from this community (thank you!) so I think that it's time that I give back.

This is a 2005 movie with Bruce Campbell that I thought was from the late 80s or early 90s. That's really all you need to know but I'll paste the wikipedia description below :

Man with the Screaming Brain is a 2005 science fiction/slapstick film co-written, produced, and directed by Bruce Campbell, who also stars. It is Campbell's feature film directorial debut. The film was co-written by David Goodman and co-stars Ted Raimi.

The film centers on William Cole, a wealthy American executive who travels to Bulgaria with his wife, only for their marriage and lives to unravel after she begins an affair with their taxi driver, Yegor. A violent encounter with a vengeful maid leaves William and Yegor dead, but William is revived through a brain transplant that forces him to share his body with Yegor's consciousness.

PART WOMAN. PART MACHINE. TOTAL DESTRUCTION.

When an alien fugitive crash lands into a local puppy farm and begins turning people into machines that feed on puppy flesh, Dylan and her BFF Eddie have to decide whether or not to take on the SheBorg menace, and save the world.

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Schlockmeister Bruno Mattei (here using the pseudonym William Snyder) steals footage from the Jaws series & The Last Shark to bring us this masterpiece!

#FridayThrillerClub watch party on Mastodon: Every Friday (7.30pm US Eastern time), watch a thrilling movie and join in by posting on Mastodon with the #FridayThrillerClub hashtag.

Info & Links

• NeoDB - #FridayThrillerClub

WARNING: Shark Week is coming...

... sword and sorcery adventure film ... follows Hawk and Voltan, two warring brothers. Hawk, wielding a magical sword, assembles a small force of fighters to rid the land of Voltan. The film was received negatively upon its initial release, but has since developed a cult following.

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The film opened at the Odeon Marble Arch on 18 December 1980.[6] The film did well when it was released in the United Kingdom, but the collapse of the distribution company ITC prevented a theatrical release in the United States.[3] The movie's American premiere was on television, as part of The CBS Late Movie series, on December 3, 1982.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hawk_the_Slayer

5.3 on IMDB! 40% tomatometer / 57% popcornmeter on rottentomatoes!

Hawk the Slayer (1980) is the movie for this Sunday's "monsterdon" watch party over on Mastodon, our fediverse sibling!

• Just start watching that movie this Sunday, August 2 at 9pm ET / 8pm CT / 6pm PT which is 1am Monday UTC
• and follow #monsterdon over on mastodon for live text commentary. For example, you can follow that hashtag here: https://mastodon.social/tags/monsterdon
• I usually open two web browser windows side-by-side on a computer. But you could follow the mastodon commentary on a phone app while watching the movie on TV or something.

How to watch the movie:

• for info on how to block ads, see: https://ohai.social/@klu9/115245207831850566
• tubi: https://tubitv.com/movies/465040/hawk-the-slayer
• youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UaRr5FYLWts
• archive: https://archive.org/details/hawk-the-slayer_202404
• it's usually streamed on https://miru.miyaku.media/ at that time
• if you want to pay and/or watch ads, look here: https://www.justwatch.com/uk/movie/hawk-the-slayer
• for trigger warnings see: https://www.doesthedogdie.com/media/84503

Dr. Ed Wainwright, an agricultural scientist, played by [Peter] Graves, successfully grows gigantic vegetables using radiation. Unfortunately, the vegetables are eaten by locusts (the swarming phase of short-horned grasshoppers), which quickly grow to a gigantic size and attack the nearby city of Chicago. Beginning of the End is generally known for its "atrocious" special effects, "and yet," writes reviewer Bill Warren, "there is something almost compellingly watchable about this goofy little movie".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beginning_of_the_End_(film)

Beginning of the End (1957) is the movie for this Sunday's "monsterdon" watch party over on Mastodon, our fediverse sibling!

• Just start watching that movie this Sunday, July 26 at 9pm ET / 8pm CT / 6pm PT which is 1am Monday UTC
• and follow #monsterdon over on mastodon for live text commentary. For example, you can follow that hashtag here: https://mastodon.social/tags/monsterdon
• I usually open two web browser windows side-by-side on a computer. But you could follow the mastodon commentary on a phone app while watching the movie on TV or something.

How to watch the movie:

• for info on how to block ads, see: https://ohai.social/@klu9/115245207831850566
• tubi: https://tubitv.com/movies/100056094/beginning-of-the-end
• youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=izrKn6JGhrQ
• youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K9vrpsiRX3s
• archive: https://archive.org/details/beginning-of-the-end-1957_202511
• it's usually streamed on https://miru.miyaku.media/ at that time
• if you want to pay and/or watch ads, look here: https://www.justwatch.com/us/movie/beginning-of-the-end
• for trigger warnings see: https://www.doesthedogdie.com/media/233750